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Flash Comics 86

FLASH COMICS #86

Cover Date: August 1947
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1947-06-09

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Lee Elias
Inks: Joe Kubert


Story: "Stone Age Menace" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Kanigher
PencilsLee Elias
InksJoe Kubert
Assistant editingJulius Schwartz
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Flash (next in All-Star Comics #36)

Supporting Character(s):

Joan Williams (next in All-Flash #30)

Villain(s):

Professor Lake (first appearance; attempts to steal meteorite samples using a mechanical dinosaur)

Location(s):

Keystone City


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Second Story: "The Black Canary" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Kanigher
PencilsCarmine Infantino
InksJoe Giella
Assistant editingJulius Schwartz
EditingSheldo

Feature Character(s):

Johnny Thunder

Supporting Character(s):

Thunderbolt (next in issue #88/3

Villain(s):

Socks Slade (first appearance; a wealthy crook)

Other Character(s):

Black Canary (Dinah Drake; first appearance; a crimefighter who poses as a crook; last in flashback in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #50/5)

Story Reprinted in:

Adventure Comics #416/3 (March 1972)
Black Canary Archives #1 (2001)


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Third Story: "The Case of the Extra Ghost!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJohn B. Wentworth
ArtCarmine Infantino
Assistant editingJulius Schwartz
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Ghost Patrol:
Fred
Pedro
Slim

Villain(s):

Farge (first appearance; tries to buy a house that will soon be worth a fortune)


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Fourth Story: "The Valley of the Purple Pilgrim!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJoe Kubert
Assistant editingJulius Schwartz
EditingSheldon Mayer

Feature Character(s):

Hawkman (next in All-Star Comics #36)

Supporting Character(s):

Shiera Sanders
Big Red (final appearance)

Villain(s):

Purple Pilgrim (first appearance; a crook who uses Hidden Valley as a hideout and the guise of the Purple Pilgrim to control the citizens)

Other Character(s):

Jonathan Sanders, M. Sanders, Senator Sanders and another relative (first appearance for all; relatives of Shiera Sanders; all die)

Location(s):

Hidden Valley (first appearance; citizens descended from 17th Century pilgrims)


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